Having had a good upbringing nowadays is a great disadvantage as it excludes you from so many things.
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The best quotes by Oscar Wilde
All men are married women's property. That is the only true definition of what married women's property really is.
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Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.
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How exaggerated is the importance of faith! Even in love it is but physiological, indipendently from will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not: old men want to be faithless and cannot.
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There is no reason for one to display his life to the world. The world doesn't understand.
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The tragedies we survive come from outside, they're accidents. But to suffer for a mistake -ah!- that is by far the largest pain one may feel.
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To be entirely free, and at the same time, entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life that we realise at every moment.
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There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul.
from the book "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.
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I never talk during music, at least, during good music. If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it in conversation.
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